Maritime record 14151 - ANN: LOCH BOISDALE, SOUTH UIST, SEA OF THE HEBRIDES

NF81NW 8009 c. 80 18
N57 8 W7 17

NLO: Loch Baghasdail [name centred NF 802 184].

Glasgow, June 17. AROS CASTLE (s) - ANN. The AROS CASTLE (s), Smith, hence for Loch Eport, North Uist, and the intermediate West Highland ports, on the 12th inst., during a very strong breeze, ran into the ANN fishing smack, of Skipness, Macallister, at anchor in Loch Boisdale [Lochboisdale] Bay. The steamer sustained no damage, but the smack was injured amidships and afterwards sank.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,641, London, Wednesday June 23 [1880].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4984).

Possibly on map sheet NF71NE; the location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 November 2004.

REPORT DATE: 17/11/2004